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Personally, I like Wear // Tear instead of running Abrupt Decay + Reverent Silence because Wear // Tear hits both enchantments and artifacts. What I mean is, in Br shell you don't have the blue...

You are missing that Leyline of the Void is cmc4.

Colorless:
Dark Depths + Thespian Stage (+ Vampire Hexmage)
Quiksilver Amulet
Nevinyrral's Disk

Red:
Chaos Warp
Confusion in the Ranks (triggers itself when EtB)
Stronghold Gambit
Sneak...

Draw 7 vs 14 also depends on what you get in first 7. What you are lopking for is a second fatty to cleanup discard and animate without life loss next turn, or enough mana accel to hardcast it. If...

Borderline German highlander playable target. Not good enough in Legacy. Three cards is expensive compared to e.g. Inkwell Leviathan, Iona on opponent's removal color or Archtype of Endurance.

If...

When your first animation is a Griselbrand, the draw 7/14/21 typically makes sure that you get a second, possibly third and fourth animation. Getting Griselbrand first, niche target second is...

Back in the day, Archon used to be great in "slow and steady" Bu animator builds against midrange decks which had white, Karakas and creatures with way more than 2 toughness, making Elesh Norn and...

Have you considered Massacre Wurm, Wurmcoil Engine and Sphinx of the Steel Wind? Wurm is a Elesh-like wiper which you can sometimes ritual into. Wurmcoil and Sphinx are non-legendary lifelinkers...

Miracles lists without Mentor. Now that those are mostly gone from the metagame/replaced by Stoneforge Mystic UW and UWx builds, Stronghold Gambit is not as powerful as it used to be.

Red blasts,...

If that's not enough to think about, have a look at GER highlander Reanimator lists for additional food for thought. I don't seem to find a decent contemporary Sultai or Grixis list online, though,...

I was mainly thinking about active DRS and Containment Priest when writing my post. Grave hate bears.

If I were to consider alternatives to MD Iona, I would first think about Ruric Thar vs combo heavy meta, followed up by non-legendary alternatives (Blazing Archon, second Tidespout Tyrant, Archetype...

Personally, I would be interested in hearing opinions about Sin Prodder and Chandra, Torch of Defiance which have recently popped up in red stompy lists in transformational "man-plan" SBs. At least...

If you know that there will be a lot of Rest in Peace in the local metagame, old school transformational sb into Leyline of the Void - Helm of Obedience combo becomes an option. The weakness of this...

If you want to ramp up mana to hardcast stuff like Grave Titan or Keranos - Carpet of Flowers.

Activating Tortured Existence with Exhume on the stack is a super niche way to play through Surgical,...

That's essentially the Children list I would run. Children and Tendrils do change some matchups considerably, specifically a) some combo matchups and b) decks that can answer your creatures...

Running G.Probe over T.Seize seems counterproductive. For the same amount of life loss, we only see the opponent's hand instead of taking out a problem card. We draw into a random card without...

I'm not a fan of Cabal Therapy without small creatures to flashback it. If you want a creature token slot, I would play 1-2 Young Pyromancer over Goblin Rabblemaster. Or splash white for 1-2...

Sounds like your manabase might appreciate you dropping red & switching your F.Lootings into C.Studies to have more reliable mana sources vs Wasteland decks. Unless you really love running other red...

Not knowing what hate our opponent is going to bring in or them bringing in diversified hate is the worst. Macabre you can stop with spot discard and Pithing Needle, Surgical we can stop t1 on play...

Sounds to me you are not mulliganing aggressively enough in g2/g3. We are playing a deck which can mulligan down to 4 and combo off t1 on the play (e.g. land, ritual, entomb, exhume). Or more...

Cabal Therapy over Faithless Looting with 2x Chrome Mox for speed and 1x Bayou for SB Abrupt Decay and Reverent Silence? Seems legit.

Without any SB splash, the deck can't get rid of Leyline of...

In a DRS + Surgical world, I am much happier piloting Sneaky Show, OmniTell or Big Red over Reanimator.

Legacy Reanimator, Legacy/Modern Dredge and Modern Affinity have one thing in common: they...

The reason why we run F.Looting or C.Study in the first place is:
- We are allowed only 4 Entomb. We would actually like to play 8-11 copies with less creature count.
- Natural discard is too slow...

Let's say it's g1. The t1 play is fetch (preferably Verdant Catacombs) into basic swamp, Thoughtseize them, go. Chances are the opponent won't put you into Reanimator at this point and could tap DRS...